Transport of workflows (WS) backwards from 640 to 4.6C?

[Mike Gambier]

Hi Viveka,

Your list is handy though as it sums up pretty much all of the important 
Workflow database tables that SAP changed to allow Workflow to become 
Webflow and support ABAP Classes, like the XML object used by XI.

The most common change was to add Object Class (I forget the actual field 
name) so that the tables could support more than just BOR Objects. The 
sneaky little 'BO' value that appears in SWDD (and the drop down field 
behind it) is the most obvious telltale evidence of the change for anyone 
seeing it for the first time, at least I thought so anyway.

Obviously SAP had to recreate a lot of tables to make the changes backwards 
compatible so as to avoid screwing up existing implementations (like ours) 
that make use of the 'old' tables directly and smooth the upgrade process.

By the way your list has saved me a lot of effort in preparing an impact 
assessment for an upgrade we are considering from 4.6C to 6.40. Now I have a 
shortlist of tables to peek at so thanks very much : )

MGT

>From: "Bakker, Paul" <Paul.Bakker at sunwater.com.au>
>Reply-To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>Subject: RE: Transport of workflows (WS) backwards from 640 to 4.6C?
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:48:17 +1000
>
>Hej Viveka,
>
>I would be very careful about transporting from a new version of SAP to an 
>old version. Your 640 workflow may make use of features / structures / 
>tables that simply do not exist in 46C.
>
>The only guaranteed solution to your problem is to recreate the workflow 
>manually in 46C.
>
>mvh
>Paul
>
>   _____
>
>From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of 
>viveka.schwartz at implema.se
>Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 6:41 AM
>To: sap-wug at mit.edu
>Subject: Transport of workflows (WS) backwards from 640 to 4.6C?
>
>
>
>Dear Workflowers,
>
>we have developed a workflow in ECC 5.0 (640) which we have tried to 
>transport to a 4.6C system.  (Transports from 4.6C to 5.0 works fine)
>
>The error messages we receive in STMS are described below.
>The wf ID and the basic data tab strip are created correctly, but the wf 
>definition as well as the wf container are empty.
>
>Is there any way to perform a transport from 5.0 to 4.6C ?
>
>// Kind regards
>Viveka Schwartz
>
>Log after transport to target system (4.6C):
>**************************************************
>    key field HRS1212-CLSTYP missing, key is truncated.
>    key field HRS1212-CLSTYP missing, key is truncated.
>    Table HRSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCNTIDX is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSDSTEPS is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSGLOBAL is not in nametab
>    Table HRSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCNTIDX is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSDSTEPS is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSGLOBAL is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSPROPTS is not in nametab
>    Table HRSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCNTIDX is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSCONT is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSDSTEPS is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSGLOBAL is not in nametab
>    Table SWDSPROPTS is not in nametab
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